From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Modified load-path proposal Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:32 +0000 Message-ID: <873bmi392j.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <878xwx5ld2.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87u0fl3wam.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87oe5s51l4.fsf@ivanova.rotty.yi.org> <87ek6njah0.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87r7adf8h1.fsf@zip.com.au> <87vezhbknv.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87u0ey3mph.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130713233 7952 80.91.229.2 (30 Oct 2005 23:00:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 31 00:00:23 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWM9Y-0001UB-Lk for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:59:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWM9W-0008QM-RT for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:59:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EWM9S-0008QH-UR for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:59:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EWM9P-0008Q5-Nu for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:59:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWM9P-0008Q2-KX for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:59:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EWM9P-0006gB-4s for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:59:43 -0500 Original-Received: from laruns (host81-130-88-151.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.130.88.151]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F268B409FCC; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6999B6F6CE; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:32 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: ttn@glug.org In-Reply-To: (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:37:33 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:4916 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > From: Neil Jerram > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:04:58 +0000 > > We could enforce this by [...] > I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts (again). > > if your design requires enforcement, someone will want to > redesign it later to get around it. Not sure what you mean by "to get around it". Do you mean that someone will change the design so that the interface does the enforcement itself; or that if the interface is precise about what it allows, someone will want to change it to be more permissive in future? > you might as well > put yourself in the third-party-programmer's shoes from > the beginning. perlis sez: simplicty follows complexity. perlis? Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user